Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.